Okay, I am very very close to reformatting. Most of my stuff is backed up so it really isn't a problem. Though I'd like to avoid it if I can.

I got hit with some bad malware or adware or whatever. Some of my search engine results are redirected and I get some pop ups as well, most of the pop ups are some website survey page. Occasionally the redirects are to fake internet scans that show I have infections and need to buy their bogus virus scanners. It was actually worse before.

I just dealt with a Window's stop error that I believe was 0000007B, safe mode didn't work. I booted from "last known good" or whatever. That worked. I have been using many free software that hasn't been able to pin it down, amongst others their is Malwarebytes, Hi Jack This, Super Anti Spyware, Ashampoo, and Avast.

Is there anybody out there who can help me? Thanks in advance!

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Proud NRA Life Member As Of 2016"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened." – Norman Thomas, American socialist

Go here:http://www.avira.com/en/support/support_downloads.html
Download Avira AntiVir Rescue System in .ISO format. Burn it to a CD, then boot the computer from the CD. This CD will have up-to-date virus definitions included as part of the download. If you don't have a software that burns .ISOs to CD, you can use the .EXE version which will burn the CD for you. It is Linux-based and will boot run before Windows loads.

After running the Avira scan from the CD, boot to Safe Mode and delete all cookies, temp file, etc. from browsers.

I'm on my cell. Acura is on the scanner but nothing is happening. Status says scanner not started. Start scanner button is faded, it cannot be clicked. It isn't frozen though, I cando anything except starting the scanner.

Back on my computer. Scanner does nothing. Safe mode doesn't start, it turns into a Window's stop error. MalwareBytes found nothing.

My Mom's computer got this virus.
There is a step-by-step Utube video on how to fix this.
I don't know where it is in utube, my sister found it.
Maybe search the virus name.
It took 3 hours to fix but she did it.

Originally my background got hijacked, the pop ups happened a lot more and the redirects were after every search result. Pop ups and redirects aren't as strong and the background is back to normal. Also, the virus had shut down cntrl+alt+del, I have fixed that as well.

I am actually getting another error, I'll write down what it is next time I get it but it says windows suffered a serious error and needs to reboot and counts down from I think a 45 second timer. Very annoying.

Here is my Hi Jack This log (btw I removed the seconds on the time because it created one of those animated smilies hosted on this site ):

Proud NRA Life Member As Of 2016"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened." – Norman Thomas, American socialist

Did it and rebooted. The 021 item is gone, the 04 item is still there.

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Proud NRA Life Member As Of 2016"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened." – Norman Thomas, American socialist

The redirects, pop ups, and errors are still here. The computer does seem to run faster though. I think the one that wouldn't go away is tied into the redirects and pop ups.

I got that reboot error again and wrote it down. It is a 1 mintue timer, it says a shutdown was initiated by NT Authority\System. Something else about DCOM server process launcher terminated unexpectidly.

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Proud NRA Life Member As Of 2016"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened." – Norman Thomas, American socialist

Hmm, I ran SpyBot this evening and found some bad sounding things. There are a whole bunch of things in the title "Microsoft.Windows.DisableSystemRestore". There were tons of these, bypassfirewalls, antivirus override and a couple of Win32 agents. Hopefully this'll help as none of my other software programs were working.

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Proud NRA Life Member As Of 2016"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened." – Norman Thomas, American socialist